Device for distribution of accounts



Oct. 25, 1932. NIEMANN ET AL 1,884,814

DEVICE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF ACCOUNTS Filed Italy is, 1951 3 sheet -sheet 1 Oct; 25, 1932. F. A. NIEMANN ET AL DEVICE F08 DISTRIBUTION OF ACCOUNTS Filed May 15, 1951 8 :5v Sheets-Sheet 2 1932- F. A. NIEMANN ET AL 1,834,314

DEVICE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF ACCOUNTS Filed May 15, 1931 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 9 7&7

PROFIT \SALES new: Smss DEVIUE BOB) DISTRJUB UTIUN 0]? ACCOUNTS This invention relates in general to a device tor facilitating computation of like items individually displayed upon a multiplicity ct separate similar record sheets, and has more particular reference to the provision ot an arrangement of such record sheets and means tor maintaining such sheet-s so arranged upon a backing support that a line guide arranged across said sheets, each having a series of itemsot similar character and individually (littering, may be readily shifted to accurate ly indicate said items for laterally extending or totalling them,

llhe invention contemplates the provision of record sheets provided With columns of significant data along eaclgot its side edges and upon hoth of their faces and the arrangement oi such sheets upon said hacking suppor with the desired columns to be extended or totaliaed (as to like items) arranged in closely adjacent relationship so that in the use ot the line guide the operator or accountant need only tollovv along the line guide se ting up the successively presented items of the successive strips or record sheets on an adding or calculating machine.

The invention has for one of its principal objects the provision of improved and ethcient means in connection with said hacking support for engaging and holding the ends of the record sheets or strips so that they may he held accurately in the desired predeter mined position and relationship against inad vertent disturbance throughout the calculations,

Another important object of the invention is the provision or strip or sheet holding means which will clamp the sheets or strips in the desired relationship and which, after computations have been completed ot the items upon the presented faces of the strips or sheets, the strip holding or clamping means and the held strips or sheets may he readily removed from the hacking support and reversed as a unit to present the opposite or leach laces oi said strips or sheets.

Numerous other objects and advantages of the invention Will be apparent as it is hetter understood from the tollovving description, which, When taken in connection with the application riled May 13, rear.

accompanying drawings, illustrate a preterred embodiment thereof,

On the drawings,

Figure l is a plan view of a record sheet holder and the contained sheets in Which the instant invention is emhodied;

Fig. 2 is a partial plan view of the'sarne licrial lilo. iiilii,ltld..

showing the top and the sheets and sheet hold ing means reversed in position;

it ig. 3 is a transverse vertical. section, somewhat enlarged, showing the sheet holding means in elevation;

l is an enlarged perspective detail of an end of the sheet or strip holding means;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged. partial section taken on the line 55 oi? Fig. 1 3 and is igs. G and 'l' are enlarged detail vievvs oi the front and rear of a record sheet or strip particularly adapted for employment with the record sheet holder shown in the earlier numbered figures, it being understood from certain aspects such record sheet or strip and its equivalents are Within the purview of ths invention,

'l he record sheet holder shovvn on the drawings and constituting the embodiment of the invention at present preferred comprises generally a backing support or hase ll, strip or sheet holding means 12 arranged at the upper edge of the hacking support ll to engage the desired predetermined position and relationship, and a line guide 13 which extends across the hacking support and is adapted to slide up and dovvn into accurate registration with the alined items of the presented column of the record sheets or strips held in position by the strip clamping means 12.

T he hacking support 11 may he of any de sired material tor hacking or supporting the held strips, generally indicated by reference character 15, in the registration given them loy the clamping means 12, At its top the hacking support is provided with two up standing pins 16, in the present embodiment of the invention for receiving in accurate predetermined position the sheet or strip clamp ing means 12, and these pins constitute attaching means for holding the sheet or strip clamping nieans 12 in original and reversed ends of the sheets or strips and hold them in i describe strip The sheet or strip clamping means 12, in the preferred embodiment of the invention shown on the drawings, comprises a peg or pin carrier 17 in which or on which a plurality of upwardly projecting pins or pegs 18 are arranged at regularly spaced intervals. The pegs 18 are conveniently secured to the member 17 by riveting them through the memberl'Z', as indicated at 19. The member 17 is provided also with end openings 21 adapted to frictionally fit over the attaching pegs or pins 16 of the backing support to hold the strip 17 in place; The clamping means 12 also comprises a confining strip or bar 22 adapted to be brought down upon the positioned record sheets or strips to hold them against inadvertent displacement or disturbance after arrangement.

This strip or bar 22 is provided with openings or apertures 23 spaced in accordance with the spacings of the pegs 18 so that the pegs 18 may extend through the openings 23 when the or bar 22 is positioned. The confining strip or bar 22 is provided with one or more devices for securely holding it in position, this being of more particular importance where and in accordance with the attainment of the full purposes of this invention it is intended that the clamping means 12 and the clamped r sheets and strips of records are intended for reversal. Three such devices are provided in the structure shown on the drawings and each consists of a clamping member 24 enclosing a spring 25 adapted to engage over and grip an appropriately arranged peg 18 as the strip or bar 24 is moved down to record sheet or strip holding position.

The strip or bar 22 is also preferably provided with end openings or apertures 26 adapted for registration with the apertures 21 of the member 17, already described, and accordingly adapted also for frictional enagement with the end pins or pegs 16 on the gacking support 11. v

Referring pow to Figs. 6 and 7 the record sheets or strlps are provided with marginal columns 31 and 32 of substantially like width, and each strip is perforated, as indicated at 33, with perforations so located with respect to said marginal colunms as to permit engage.-

ment with the pegs 18 to arrange the marginal columns at like sides of successive strips to be exposed when the strips are arranged in overlapping relationship, i. e. with the left hand perforation of the next succeeding right hand-strip impaled over the right hand peg. of the next preceding strip. Thus constructed the record sheet holder of the drawings and said strips are adapted to optionally expose only either the right or left columns of successive strips in closely adjacent relationship and without intervening or interposed numerical data or items.

lln accordance with the present invention 1 or strips, the entire clamping device or means is detachable as a single unit from the pegs or pins 16 and may be turned end for end to an inverted position re-engaging said pegs or pins 16.

In the instant embodiment of the invention the backing support 11 is perforated at 36 to receive the pegs 18, and is recessed at 37 to accommodate clamping members 24.

The line guide 14 is arranged across the backing support 11 and is slidable lengthwise of the columns of inscribed data. It is provided with a head 41 engaging a side 42 of the backing support to insure accurate positioning across the columns. It is preferably detachably held in place by mechanism to be now described.

A guide 43 is preferably secured by screws 44 on the underside of the backing support 11 and provides an upstanding flange 45 adapted to enter into a groove 46 extending lengthwise of the head 47 of the line guide 14. A manually operable slide 48, having an end 49 arranged in the groove 46 to press against the flange 45 is provided and is normally urged into holding engagement with this flange by a spring 51.

It is thought that the invention and many of its attendant advantages will be understood from the foregoing description, and it will be apparent that various changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the (parts without departing from the spirit an scope of the invention or sacrificing all of its material advantages, the form hereinbefore described being merely a referred embodiment thereof.

e claim:

1. A record sheet holder, comprising a backing support for a multiplicity of strips of paperhaving columns of numerical data, a plurality of pegs arranged along an edge of said board, a confining metal strip associated with said pegs for holding said multiplicity of strips of paper impaled on said pegs and in predetermined desired position and relationship on said backing support, and a line guide extending across said multiplicity of strips upon said backing support to facilitate lateral reading and extension of like items across said plurality of strips.

2. A record sheet holder, comprising a assault backing support "tor a multiplicity oil strips ct paper having columns ct numerical data, a strip clamping devicetor engaging and clamping an end of each of said multiplicity of strips to hold them in predetermined and desired relation, said clamping device being attachable to and detachable from an edge of said. backing support, and a line guide adapted to extend across said multiplicity oi strips held in said clamping device to facilitate lateral reading and extension oil lilre items across said multiplicity of strips,

3. record sheet holder, comprising a baching support for a multiplicity oi strips of paper having edge columns ol numerical data, a clamping device'tor engaging and holding said multiplicity oi? strips oi paper in overlapped relation and with only predetermined columns at data exposed on oppo; site traces of said strips, said clamping de vice being reversibly attachable to said baching support to optionally display the ex posed columns on the two sides oi said strips,

l, record sheet holder, comprising a baclring support tor a multiplicity ot strips ct paper having columns of numerical data upon their laces and along their edges, and a clamping device separate from said backing support and attachable thereto and comprising pegs for receiving said strips in over lapping relation and a retaining member engageable over said pegs, said clamping device as a unit and the multiplicity oi strips held thereby being reversibly engagea-ble with said backing support to arrange said multiplicity of strips upon said backing support with front or back faces exposed.

5.. A record sheet holder, comprising a backing support for a multiplicity of strips of paper having columns of numerical data, a clamping device tor engaging and holding said multiplicity ot strips ct paper in predetermined desired position and relationship, saidclamping device being reversible, and an edge ct said backing support being tor-med to receive said clamping device in either position 6 A record sheet holder, comprising a backing su port adapted to receive a multiplicity 0 strips oil paper having columns ct numerical data, a row ct pins carried by said leaching support tor receiving the ends of said strips to hold them in predetermined equally spaced shingled relationship across said backing support with columns exposed, a line guide arrangeable across said strips and movable lengthwise thereof to facilitate lateral reading ct items across said plurality ct strips, and a confining strip associated with said pins for holding the engaged ends of said strips in the predetermined shingled relation during useof the record sheet holder,

7. A record sheet holder, comprising a backing support adapted to receive a mul tiplicity of strips ct paper having columns of numerical data, a row of pins carried by said leaching support for receiving the ends of said strips to hold them in predetermined equally spaced shingled relationship across said baclring support with columns exposed, a line guide arrangeable across said strips and movable lengthwise thereofto facilitate lateral reading of items across said plurality of strips, a conhningstrip associated with said pins for holding the engaged ends of said strips in the predetermined shingled relation during use of the record sheet holder, and one or more locking devices "for holding said s" in predetermined position. record sheet holder, comprising baching support for multiplicity oil strips of paper having columns oil numerical data, means associated with leaching support for eng the on s ot said stri s ol paper to hold them in predetermined desired position and in shingled relationship on said leaching support, said means comprising a strip clamping device tor engaging the ends of said strips of paper and attachable to and detachable from the leaching support, and a line guide extending across said multiplicity oi strips and to itacilitate oil items across saidmultiplicity of strips.-

9. A record sheet holder, comprising a backing support for a multiplicity of strips cl paper having columns oil numerical data, means associated with said backing support tor engaging the ends ol" said strips of paper to hold them in predetermined desired position and in shingled relationship on said backing support, said means comprising a reversible clamp detachable i'rom said bacliing support and adapted to be reversibly attached in osition to expose columns upon the opposite aces 0t said strips, and a line guide extending across said multiplicity oi strips in either position upon said support to tacilitate lateral reading and extensionot items across said multiplicity ct strips.

it), it record sheet holder, comprising a leaching support adapted to receive a multi-V plicity ot strips oi paper having columns oi numerical data, a row ct projections carried by said backing support tor receiving the ends ot said strips to hold them in predetermined equally spaced shingledrelationship across said bachin support with columns exposed, a line gui e arrangeable across said strips and movable len thwise thereof to facilitate lateral readingot items across said plurality oi strips, and aconfining strip associated with said projections for holding the engaged ends of said strips in the predetermined shingled relation during use of the record sheet holder.

11. A record sheet holder, comprising a backing support for a multiplicity of strips lltl positioned upon said support lateral reading and extension tilt of Faper having col of numerical dam, a. c mnping dance for engaging and holding said multiplicity of strips of paper in overlapped relation and with only predetermined columns of data exposed on opposite faces of said strips, said clamping devices being reversibly arrangeable on said backin support to optionally displa the exposed co umns on the two sides of said strips.

FREDERICK A. ME. KT F. ZIE f 

